2013-2014 Schedule for Promotion and/or Tenure Recommendations

DATE

ACTION

By first week in March

Call for applications for academic promotion and/or award of tenure (Executive Dean)

May 1, 2013

Applicants must complete and submit campus specific Registration Form. Access to the Registration Forms will be denied at 5:00 pm, CDT, May 1, 2013.

During Fall

Orientation session for SOM Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee.  (Kansas City and Wichita committee members)

August 1, 2013

Deadline for Department Promotion and Tenure Committees to meet.

Tuesday
September 3, 2013

Deadline for completed applications to be received by Office of Professional Development and Faculty Affairs (Kansas City faculty) or The Office of Faculty Development (Wichita faculty). Access to your online submission site will be denied at 5:00 pm, CDT, September 3, 2013.

By mid- January 2014

Campus committees complete application reviews

By January 31, 2014

Joint SOM Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee finalize their recommendations; results are forwarded to the Executive Dean.

February 1 to February 14, 2014

Executive Dean reviews School of Medicine  Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee recommendations

Week of February  17, 2014

 

 

 

Executive Dean's recommendations and denials are forwarded to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

  

Denial Letters:  Individual faculty members, who have been unsuccessful at the School level, must be informed in writing by the Executive Dean (with a copy to Academic Affairs) that his/her request for promotion and/or tenure has been denied and that he/she has the right to appeal the decision. The appeal must be filed by the faculty member within two weeks of notification from the Executive Dean.

Within two weeks of notification from the Executive Dean

Appeal Deadline: 5:00 p.m. Faculty members may file a procedural appeal with the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. (See Handbook for Faculty...III.Part 6.D.2 -- page 93.) Applicants are instructed not to contact any member of the SOM Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee (Kansas City or Wichita Campus).

As soon as possible after appeal deadline.

Appeal Hearings for denial of promotion and/or tenure.

Dependent on Appeal Hearing Schedule

Executive Vice Chancellor forwards recommendations for Promotion and/or Tenure to the Chancellor for final approval.

Dependent on Appeal Hearing Schedule

Chancellor either approves or denies individual recommendations and communicates decisions to the EVC who in turn notifies individual faculty members in writing with a copy to the respective Department Chair (and Dean on Wichita campus, when applicable). Promotion and/or tenure becomes effective July 1, 2014.

Chancellor forwards the approved list of faculty members who have been promoted and/or awarded tenure to the Board of Regents for the regular Board Meeting in May.

*Dates to be provided by Office of Academic Affairs as soon as they are available.

Last modified: Mar 19, 2013
Forms

Registration Form - Kansas City

Registration Form - Wichita

Curriculum Vitae Form (Word)

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